PhD, FHEA
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- katherine.hockey@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
(KCS12) King's College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3UB
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
Katherine joined the school of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History in September 2017 as the Kirby Laing Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament Studies. In August 2019 she became Lecturer in New Testament. Before moving to Aberdeen, between 2015-2017, she worked with Prof David Horrell at the University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on his AHRC (UK) funded project entitled ‘Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in Early Christian and Jewish Identities: A Critical Examination of Ancient Sources and Modern Scholarship’. Katherine gained her PhD in 2016 from Durham University under the supervision of Prof John Barclay. Her AHRC (UK) funded thesis utilised ancient Greco-Roman philosophy and rhetoric along with developments in the field of modern emotion studies to explore the role of emotions in the rhetorical discourse of 1 Peter. It has been published by Cambridge University Press as The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Katherine is Co-convenor with Dr Katie Cross of Sophia: DRS Women's Network.
Sophia is a new initiative that seeks to create a supportive environment for female students and staff within Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
See https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/divinity-religious-studies/sophia-drs-womens-network-1657.php
- External Memberships
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Katherine is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and The British New Testament Society. She is also an associate member of the Society of New Testament Studies.
Katherine is currently a member of the steering committee of the Letters of James, Peter and Jude unit for the Society of Biblical Literature. She has previously served as a member of the steering committee for the Bible and Emotion unit for the Society of Biblical Literature, and as co-chair of the Later Epistles Seminar of the British New Testament Society.
Latest Publications
Resilience in 1 Peter: Faithfulness and Hope in the Face of Adversity
Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights. White, N. H., Cook, C. C. H. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 98-110, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429001185
The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 310 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567343
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New YorkBooks and Reports: Books1 Peter 4.16: Shame, Emotion and Christian Self-Perception
Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews. Hockey, K. M., Pierce, M. N., Watson, F. (eds.). Bloomsbury T&T Clark, pp. 27-40Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMuted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York. 224 pagesBooks and Reports: Books
- Research
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Research Overview
Katherine is interested, more broadly, in the formation and shaping of Early Christian identity. More specifically this includes interest in:
- 1 Peter and the Catholic Epistles
- Emotion Studies and the New Testament
- Ancient philosophy and ethics (esp. Stoicism)
- Rhetoric and the New Testament
- Christian identity construction and maintenance
- Social/Group and inter-group dimensions of texts
- Pneumatology and Charismatic readings
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Divinity.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Biblical Studies
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
Katherine continues to extend her work on emotions in the New Testament by exploring how developments in inter-group emotion theory can help us explore in greater detail and depth the emotions of love and hate in New Testament texts. Her research aims to move beyond simply categorising behaviour between ingroups and outgroups as prejudicial, or positive or negative, towards a more fine-grained examination of the range of emotional dispositions between people groups represented in the New Testament texts. This in turn will shed new light on how the New Testament shapes both self and other identity and also behaviour.
Collaborations
Katherine is currently collaborating with Ari Mermelstein (Yeshiva University) on the T & T Clark Handbook to the Bible and Emotion. This Handbook is bringing together for the first time in a comprehensive way international experts on the field of the Bible and Emotion.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Divinity.
Katherine is open to supervising various topics related to the New Testament including identity construction and maintenance, emotion, social/group aspects, conceptual relationships to Greco-Roman philosophy and Ethics (esp. Stoicism), rhetorical approaches, and charismatic readings. I have particular expertise in supervising projects that move beyond the boundaries typical of New Testament Studies and involve interdisciplinary dimensions.
Katherine's PhD students who have successfully completed their doctorate include:
Yi Sang Chan - 'The Moral Emotion of Shame and the Identity Formation of the People of God in First Corinthians'
Payton Miller - 'The Disabled Body and Accessing the Divine in Leviticus and Hebrews'
Katherine is currently supervising a range of projects including:
Zachary Bradley - ' “God With Us”: A Socio-Rhetorical Examination of the Divine Presence Formula in the Gospel of Matthew'
Cynthia Cheshire - 'Neither Null nor Negated: Reclaiming Identity in the Baptismal Formulae through Intersectional Hermeneutics'
Lindsey Croston - 'Participation and Identification: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Pauline Community Formation in 1 Corinthians & Philippians'
Samuel Grottenberg - 'A Conceptual Analysis of the Beatitudinal Resonance in the Catholic Epistles'
Matthew Meyer - 'Power and Emotion in Paul’s letter to the Philippians'
Caroline Smiley - 'The Lukan Mary: An Exemplar of and for the People of God'
- Teaching
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- Publications
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Resilience in 1 Peter: Faithfulness and Hope in the Face of Adversity
Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights. White, N. H., Cook, C. C. H. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 98-110, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429001185
The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 310 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567343
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New YorkBooks and Reports: Books1 Peter 4.16: Shame, Emotion and Christian Self-Perception
Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews. Hockey, K. M., Pierce, M. N., Watson, F. (eds.). Bloomsbury T&T Clark, pp. 27-40Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMuted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, London and New York. 224 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThe Missing Emotion: The Absence of Anger and the Promotion of Nonretaliation in 1 Peter
Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions: Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature. Spencer, F. S. (ed.). SBL Press, pp. 331-353, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters